Did you try maybe search the mod portal for "biome" ? For example there's Alien Biomes mod. So far they're mostly visual. So it would be nice if they had gameplay relevant differences. Also red-desert got added and does generates only far out s as you suggested. Also i'm not sure how many...

TL;DR Can we have more biomes added to the game with more versions of biters that have status effects, please? What ? I was looking through the mods and have yet to find any functioning mod that adds new biomes. Could you imagine a "lava land" that the biters have embers coming off of the...

I'v been playing factorio for a while now and have learned a few things to beating the game consistently, but, the issue is that there are many game modes and changes to the mechanics to the game that don't really make things more difficult, just longer to finish if you don't know what you're doing....